A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has created a camera that can record images around corners. By collecting light from ultra-short high-intensity laser bursts, the device is able to illuminate a scene and construct a basic image of its surroundings, including those around a corner. Professor Ramesh Raskar, head of the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab, and part of the new camera research team explains, Its like having x-ray vision without the x-rayswere going around the problem rather than going through it. Presently, the camera is a room-sized femtosecond laser, a light source that can fire bursts of laser light at one quadrillionth of a second.